Publication in BibTeX Format

@TECHREPORT{AICPub1524:2007,
AUTHOR={Berry, P. and Gervasio, M. and Peintner, B. and Yorke-Smith, N.},
TITLE={Balancing the Needs of Personalization and Reasoning in a User-Centric
Scheduling Assistant},
ADDRESS={333 Ravenswood Ave, Menlo Park, CA 94025},
INSTITUTION={Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International},
MONTH={feb},
NUMBER={561},
YEAR={2007},
ABSTRACT={We describe the interaction of three aspects core to a personalized
scheduling task. First, we develop a preference model designed to capture user
preferences for the task of scheduling a meeting request between multiple people,
and a methodology for preference elicitation to initially populate this model.
Second, we explain a natural-language-based elicitation of the meeting request
details and constraints, and outline the solving of the resulting constrained
scheduling problem (with preferences). Third, we describe the display of solutions
to the scheduling problem to the user, as candidate scheduling options with
explanations, and detail unobtrusive learning of revisions to the preference
model from the users choices among the candidates. We describe the user studies
that informed our design choices, and assess the resulting system in terms
of the quality of scheduling options presented, according to the user. The
scheduling task enabled by the integration of these aspects has been implemented
within a deployed application.}
}